Vietnamese, Cambodian state-run news agencies vow to boost ties
Leaders of Vietnam’s state-run news agency VNA and Cambodia’s state-run news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse AKP vowed here on Wednesday to boost ties. The announcement was made at a meeting in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Wednesday between VNA director Nguyen Duc Loi and AKP director Sok ...
Global Post News Staff
http://bit.ly/1IuRpx4
Australia-Cambodia resettlement agreement raises concerns
The United Nations Children’s Fund is voicing concern about the decision by Australia to transfer asylum seekers detained on the Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia, possibly as early as Monday. UNICEF’s concerns come amid growing refugee protests in Nauru and protests over transfers of ...
Ron Corben
http://bit.ly/1O5QDdL
Australia violating rights of refugee children by sending them to Cambodia, says Unicef
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Australia is violating the rights of children being sent from Nauru to Cambodia under the refugee transfer agreement. In the coming week, possibly as early as Monday, a charter plane is expected to fly out from Nauru with ...
The Guardian News Staff
http://t.ly/1D4BHAR
Cambodian officials awaiting official invite for border meeting
Cambodian officials from two provinces bordering Thailand say they are awaiting confirmation of a meeting with Thai counterparts, to discuss illegal export of timber. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://bit.ly/1GUQAMW
Company sells lucky iron fish, claims it reduced iron deficiency in Cambodia
Iron deficiency affects nearly 3.5 billion people worldwide. It is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world. In Cambodia, after 9 months of using the Lucky Iron Fish every day, researchers saw a 50 percent decrease in the incidence of clinical iron deficiency anemia, ...
Click2Houston.com News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Fy5seT
Cambodia gets its first LGBT magazine
The land of Cambodia is so far removed from our world, that the southeast Asian nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is only now getting its first publication aimed at LGBT readers: Q Cambodia. ...
Thom Senzee
http://bit.ly/1KPZ7Tx
‘School of Good Governance’ aims to foster integrity in officials
The Interior Ministry is developing the curriculum for a “School of Good Governance,” which from 2016 will bring officials from the provinces to Phnom Penh for a crash course in acting with integrity, a ministry official and an NGO partner said Monday. ...
Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/school-of-good-governance-aims-to-foster-integrity-in-officials-85226/
During Japan’s occupation, artist resisted, died
Seventy years ago Thursday, during what may have been the murkiest period of the French administration in Cambodia, the founder of the National Museum died in an interrogation room at the hands of Japanese authorities. ...
Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/during-japans-occupation-french-artist-resisted-died-85793/
Website crowdsources comments on draft ‘Cybercrime’ Law
The Cambodian Center for Independent Media has set up a website for public comment on a contentious draft law to regulate Cambodian cyberspace. The website establishes a “wiki”-like crowd-sourcing platform for comments on the law, even though the public has not been able to see the ...
Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1TIJVKR
Forest decimated by illegal logging
Members of local conservation group the Forest Protection Community announced plans last week to use their own staff members to patrol an area of forest in Anlong Veng that could be decimated by illegal loggers within months. ...
Naomi-Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12542/forest-decimated-by-illegal-logging/
After criticism, Ministry restores company database
Just days after a human rights group criticized the Commerce Ministry for stripping its newly revamped website of detailed information on businesses operating in Cambodia, the ministry restored its searchable database. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-criticism-ministry-restores
Campaign begins for improved child health
Unicef and the Cambodian government have launched a campaign to promote better health for children and newborns. Cambodia has made some progress improving the health of women and children, but a high rate of death for children remains a major concern. It saw its newborn mortality ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/campaign-begins-for-improved-child-health/2841753.html
Health advertisements encourage better care for children with pneumonia
Unicef and the Ministry of Health have prepared four spots to raise awareness in the care of newborns and young children with illnesses. The ads, for radio and television, aim at improving the country’s high child mortality rate. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/health-ads-encourage-better-care-for-children-with-pneumonia/2845123.html
Australia pushing to send more refugees: group
A month after the first four refugees arrived in Cambodia under a controversial resettlement scheme the government signed with Australia last year, immigration officers on the South Pacific island of Nauru are ratcheting up efforts to convince more refugees to join them, according to a ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/australia-pushing-to-send-more-refugees-to-cambodia-group-87347/
KR tribunal judge resigns amid police inaction
Mark Harmon, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s international co-investigating judge, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down from his position following almost a year of inaction by judicial police in executing arrest warrants in two government-opposed cases. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kr-
Ministry finishes its draft law on alcohol
The Ministry of Health has completed a draft law on alcohol regulation, which will set a minimum drinking age, increase taxes on alcohol and place other controls on the sale, consumption and advertising of alcohol. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-finishes-its-draft-law-alcohol
Drug rehabs offer more harm than help
When police brought Manly to his room in the Mundoul Orkas Knhom drug rehab center outside Phnom Penh, he saw blood on the wall. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13342//
Cambodia inaugurates China-funded school building
Cambodia on Thursday inaugurated a three-story school building at the Indradevi High School here, which was donated by China Foundation for Peace and Development. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6616722/2015/07/16/cambodia-inaugurates-china-funded-school-building
Many split on whether Cambodia should follow US on same-sex marriage
The reach of a US Supreme Court decision in favor of same-sex marriage has been far, even in Cambodia, where the decision was much discussed over social media. That has given some in the country’s LGBT community hope, but it has also exposed divisions in ...
Competition puts pressure on mortgage rates
Mortgage rates are set to continue their decline, driven by strong bank competition, say banks and home lending experts. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13633/competition-puts-pressure-on-mortgage-rates/